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Thoughts from LSU's late game vs. UW last night
-Locker is the real deal. Dude can move in the pocket and has a cannon. I really like the look of that UW offense. Lots of speed on the perimeter and Locker gives you a lot to account for on every play.
-Disappointed in the new look John Chavis defense. A few players looked great, especially the LBs, but our DL and secondary continue to let us down. There was no pass rush from the front four all night, and aside from the ever beastly Patrick Peterson our DBs looked terrible. Jae Eugene got burned once in man coverage, and Chris Hawkins is probably still trying to get off that block from the UW receiver down field. The unit looked better in the 2nd half, but we'll need to pick it up considerably if we're gonna get back to championship football.
- Without even using our two best offensive players (Scott, LaFell), LSU ran up 24 points of offense, and our young QB had 172 yards and 3 TDs. I'll look at this as a positive since we'll be utilizing our playmakers a bit more as the season progresses. Playcalling for the first half was abysmal, not sure if that's a product of limiting the playbook for a young QB or we just never had a chance to get going since we couldn't get our D off the field.
- Terrance Toliver showed why he was a coveted 5* recruit 2 years ago, and will force us to wait a bit on the Rueben Randle show. He established himself as our #2 WR last night. Poor Washington corners got juked out of their shoulder pads on each of his TDs.
- Only 1 penalty from LSU is a huge step in the right direction. Aside from an uncharacteristic fumble by C. Scott, we played mistake free football. I can't remember a game with fewer penalties for us.
- 3rd downs are killing us. Chavis has to stop rushing 4 and dropping into a deep zone on these 3rd and longs. When we got aggressive and pressed and blitzed we made more things happen. If our front four is gonna continue to not get to the QB we'll have to bring more pressure off the edge.
-Locker is the real deal. Dude can move in the pocket and has a cannon. I really like the look of that UW offense. Lots of speed on the perimeter and Locker gives you a lot to account for on every play.
-Disappointed in the new look John Chavis defense. A few players looked great, especially the LBs, but our DL and secondary continue to let us down. There was no pass rush from the front four all night, and aside from the ever beastly Patrick Peterson our DBs looked terrible. Jae Eugene got burned once in man coverage, and Chris Hawkins is probably still trying to get off that block from the UW receiver down field. The unit looked better in the 2nd half, but we'll need to pick it up considerably if we're gonna get back to championship football.
- Without even using our two best offensive players (Scott, LaFell), LSU ran up 24 points of offense, and our young QB had 172 yards and 3 TDs. I'll look at this as a positive since we'll be utilizing our playmakers a bit more as the season progresses. Playcalling for the first half was abysmal, not sure if that's a product of limiting the playbook for a young QB or we just never had a chance to get going since we couldn't get our D off the field.
- Terrance Toliver showed why he was a coveted 5* recruit 2 years ago, and will force us to wait a bit on the Rueben Randle show. He established himself as our #2 WR last night. Poor Washington corners got juked out of their shoulder pads on each of his TDs.
- Only 1 penalty from LSU is a huge step in the right direction. Aside from an uncharacteristic fumble by C. Scott, we played mistake free football. I can't remember a game with fewer penalties for us.
- 3rd downs are killing us. Chavis has to stop rushing 4 and dropping into a deep zone on these 3rd and longs. When we got aggressive and pressed and blitzed we made more things happen. If our front four is gonna continue to not get to the QB we'll have to bring more pressure off the edge.
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